Even though you’re a pathetic wokist trying to mock the very reasonable concern normal people have with the insanely racist/sexist wokening of Hollywood, you’ve accidentally asked an intelligent question.
The answer, thankfully, is that the film is minimally woke. There’s some forced diversity and especially the ‘strong’ black girl who keeps denigrating the kid from Stranger Things is irritating, and Winston is now a high powered black business magnate (cos those are common) but that’s about it.
Gozer is now trans, which was a weird retcon, but s/he’s a villain and the film calls it out for being ‘woke’ so I can sort of give it a pass.
The small rural town is generally far more diverse than it would be in real life. It’s 2/10 woke, not enough to derail the film, which is surprisingly good and definitely worth watching.
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Rikoshay (1)
2 years ago
Gozer is and has always been genderless, as quoted from the 1984 movie;
Winston: “I thought Gozer was a man?”
Egon: “It’s whatever it wants to be”
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Drooch (5333)
2 years ago
Fail.
Gozer is clearly assuming the same form it chose in GB - which was a woman but is now a trannie. Also Afterlife shows this as a ‘core form’ of Gozer because that is the shape of the statue dedicated to it, and that idol is transsexual.
So, all of the woke elements I pointed to still stand, despite your failed effort to nitpick one of them.
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MeYouFools (153)
2 years ago
"Gozer is clearly assuming the same form it chose in GB"
Gozer didn't "choose" that form. That is Gozer's default form. The form Gozer chose in the first GB was the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. That's Gozer the Destructor. But apparently, Gozer itself is actually the Jovan/Wilde form.
Just because Egon said "It's whatever it wants to be" doesn't mean he knew exactly what he was talking about. He was just surmising from the information he had.
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[deleted]
a year ago
@Drooch: Gozer is NOT trans in this movie. Olivia Wilde is as female as it gets.
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